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Celebrity Cook Paula Deen and Sons Jamie and Bobby Bring Smithfield Foods' Helping Hungry Homes(TM) Tour to Kansas City (Popularity:  )
Harvesters: The Community Food Network today received more than 25,000 pounds of meat to help feed local families, thanks to Smithfield Foods' 10-city Helping Hungry Homes(TM) Across America tour, a hunger relief initiative led by celebrity cook Paula Deen. The tour's goal is to provide one million servings of meat to the nation's hungry families, including those in the metropolitan Kansas City area, where 43 percent of people receiving emergency ...
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Child Deaths Fall Below 10 Million For First Time (Popularity: )
http://www.unicefusa.org
Global child deaths have reached a record low, falling below 10 million per year to 9.7 million, down from almost 13 million in 1990, according to UNICEF. "This is an historic moment," said UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman. "Now we must build on this public health success to push for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals." Among these goals, which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the ...
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Children's Burn Foundation's Benefit Raises More Than $875,000 for Burn Survivors and Prevention (Popularity: )
http://www.childburn.org
The Children's Burn Foundation, which provides the expertise and programs to prevent pediatric burns and to heal severely burned children, celebrated its 13th annual Giving New Hope Benefit at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 21. The event was attended by more than 700 guests and raised more than $875,000 to help children and families in Los Angeles and around the world. "We are privileged to have raised these funds ...
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Christian Ministry Says: Don’t Read The Bible This Christmas- Ministry challenges Christians to worship this Christmas the way their brothers and sisters overseas have to do it: without a Bible. (Popularity: )
http://cribooks.homestead.com
Christian Resources International, a ministry that sends Bibles and Christian books to needy Christians overseas, is calling on American Christians to spend this Christmas without the Bible. CRI Executive Director Fred Palmerton suggests that “Christians here at home should try and conduct one worship service this Christmas the way that our brothers and sisters in the Third World regularly have to worship: without any Bibles.” “Every day, more than 122,000 ...
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Clean Hands Leading to Safer Health Care for Half the World's Population (Popularity: )
http://www.who.int
Half the people in the world can look forward to cleaner and safer care and a lowered risk of becoming ill with an infection as a result of their health care. That is because they live in countries whose governments have pledged to become part of a worldwide movement to address health-care associated infections under the Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care. A total of 22 countries ...
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Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine to Offer Full Tuition Scholarships for All Students (Popularity: )
http://www.clevelandclinic.org
Cleveland Clinic announced today that the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University is providing all its students with full tuition scholarships, beginning with this July's incoming class. Approaching its fifth year in existence, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine is dedicated to the training of physician scientists who are capable of furthering medical research and bringing the most advanced medical treatment to the patient ...
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Concerned Americans Say to Congress: 'I Am Not a Guinea Pig' (Popularity: )
http://www.edf.org
As Americans decry the tragedy of the BP oil spill, including the lack of evidence of safety for the chemical dispersants being used in the Gulf of Mexico, a new online campaign launched today provides tools and information Americans can use to press for fundamental reform of our nation's toxic chemical law. I Am Not a Guinea Pig (www.notaguineapig.org) engages Americans from all walks of life to demand better protection ...
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Conservancy Petitions Obama Administration to Designate Critical Habitat for Florida Panthers (Popularity: )
http://www.conservancy.org
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has filed a petition with Secretary Salazar of the United States Department of the Interior to provide additional legal protection for the endangered Florida panther to help prevent its extinction.Only an estimated 90 to 100 Florida panthers remain today, almost all within South Florida. Because of these low numbers, they are considered at extremely high risk of extinction. Although there are provisions to protect the ...
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Credit Unions Come Out in Force for Financial Education During Money Smart Week Wisconsin (Popularity: )
http://www.theleague.coop
Not-for-profit credit unions are working alongside financial institutions, businesses, organizations and government to lead the charge in teaching Wisconsin citizens better money management skills during Money Smart Week Wisconsin, Oct. 7-13. In total, more than 700 events are taking place next week across the state, and nearly all come at no cost to the attendees. "Managing money is a critical life skill, and one that's needed to reverse the massive ...
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DemandTec Announces Creation of DemandTec Foundation (Popularity: )
http://www.siliconvalleycf.org
DemandTec, Inc. (Nasdaq: DMAN), a leading provider of on-demand merchandising and marketing software services for retailers and consumer products companies, today announced the creation of The DemandTec Foundation, designed to enrich and enhance the communities in which DemandTec employees live and work. The DemandTec Foundation will focus primarily on math and science education as well as youth development. The DemandTec Foundation is a corporate advised fund administered through Silicon Valley ...
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